"Babaji" may refer to: a Saivite Hindu guru A song by Supertramp about the former Mahavatar Babaji, referred to by Paramahansa Yogananda in his best-selling Autobiography of a Yogi. Ananta Das Babaji, a leading religious figure in the contemporary Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. Hariakhan Babaji a saint who lived in Northern India and taught publically from 1970-1984. There are several other Hindu gurus who go by the name or title Babaji, including some who are still alive. Mos ...

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Srila Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji was born in a well-to-do mercantile family in 1838 in the village of Vagyana. It was next to the place called Tepakhola in the district of Faridpur, in modern day Bangladesh. He was thirty years old when his wife passed away, and accepted the life of a Babaji in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition under the tutelage of Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji, after meeting the latter's disciple, Srila Bhagavat dasa Babaji. He became a mendicant, staying in the hol ...

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Babaji's disciples think of him as the incarnation of Lord Shiva, and so believe that he is present everywhere. Babaji once told his disciples of the Creator: ''He is deathless. He can do whatever He wills. The whole universe is an expanded bubble ready to burst before Him.''

If Patanjali, who wrote the Yoga Sutra nearly 2,005 years ago, was instrumental in defining the principles of yoga in its different forms, Paramhansa Yogananda played a major role in popularising those principles worldwide.

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What is so special about Kriya yoga? It expands your consciousness; it enables you to move up from the ridiculous to the sublime - from say, matters of state, politics and (Cauvery) disputes to a deeper understanding of nature of the Self.

I got this divine intuition some days ago which prompted me to travel to Babaji's cave in Uttaranchal - he used to meditate there. I've been initiated into practising Kriya yoga through divine dispensation. I'd been through hardly a year's basic training before my intuition took me to Babaji's cave...

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Ananta Das Babaji (Pandit Sri Ananta Das Babaji Maharaja) is a leading religious figure in the contemporary Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. Based at Radha-kunda, he is a respected lecturer and the author of dozens of volumes of literature. Ananta Das Babaji - Biography. Sri Ananta Dasji was born in the district of Jharikhanda in 1927. During the earlier years of his life he held the occupation of a teacher, living with his wife and children. Having heard of the fame of Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji Maharaj ...

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• Ananta Das Babaji - Biography
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• Ananta Das Babaji - Headquarters

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Vipassana Meditation: The practice of the sound current in Vipassana meditation, also known as the divine sound, is a foundational practice of linking directly with the soul and I AM Presence. It comes from the Himalayan masters of ancient India, and is a foundation for the practice of nada yoga, sahaj yoga, Babaji’s kriya yoga, as well as Sikh practices like shabda yoga.

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Yogic sadhana is reminding yourself constantly to center and be aware. To identify with the "I AM", and to see your experience as a passing show, without identifying with it or becoming attached to it. Whether it be postures, pranayama, meditation, mantras or bhakti yoga, or jnana or karma yoga, the purpose is the same. To remind and to train your conscious to remain pure and free, until it becomes spontaneous and effortless.

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Kriya Yoga is a scientific art of perfect God Truth union and Self-Realization. It was revived by a great Master of India, Babaji Nagaraj, as a synthesis of ancient teachings of the 18 Siddha tradition. It includes a series of 144 techniques or "Kriyas" grouped into five phases or branches.

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Leonard Orr (born circa 1938) is an American spiritual leader best known for developing rebirthing, a 'system' or technique of breathing that can help one to overcome the "trauma" of being born. Leonard claims to have met twelve immortal yogis, including Babaji or Herakhan Baba, the Mahavatar of the Kriya Yoga lineage [brought to the West by Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi and founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship. Many people within value the tool of rebirthing, yet his idea of physical immortality has n ...

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• Leonard Orr - History
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Bogar was a legendary South Indian siddhar (herbal healer). He was said to have been born into a goldsmithing family, and to have had miraculous powers. He is also said in some New Age circles to have been associated with Mahavatar Babaji. Bohar was known as Boha muni in Ayyavazhi mythology. Other related archivesAyyavazhi mythology, Mahavatar Babaji, New Age, South Indian, goldsmithing, siddhar

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babaji

one who devotes the major portion of his life to solitary devotional practices, especially chanting the Lord’s names.

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Babaji - a term of respect which is given loosly (frequently improperly) , to sadhus and Vaisnavas, particularly those who have given up all connection with household life. In the setting of this book, this term specifically refers to the Vaisnava followers of Sriman Mahaprabhu, who have given up all the duties and designations of varnasrama society and who engage almost exclusively in chanting hari-nama. Actual babajis live as strict renunciates, they do not accept the external garb of sannyasis because sannyasa is part of varnasrama. They do not wear the sacred thread of the brahmanas because they have entered into bhavavastha and are engaged in raga-marga. Such characteristics are to be accepted only by those on the highest platform of eligibility, who retire from the world to immerse themselves in private bhajana.

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The following is a list of Babaji Maharaja's Bengali works. Texts marked with an asterisk have also been translated into English. Commentaries Gaura-Govinda-Lilamrita-Gutika - 290 Pages Krishna-Karnamritam - 820 Pages Madhurya-Kadambini - 150 Pages * Prarthana - 110 Pages Prema-Bhakti-Candrika - 320 Pages * Radha-Rasa-Sudhanidhi - 750 Pages * Utkalika-Vallari - 220 Pages * Vilapa-Kusumanjali - 404 Pages * Stavavali * - Containing the following ...

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Sri Ananta Dasji was born in the district of Jharikhanda in 1927. During the earlier years of his life he held the occupation of a teacher, living with his wife and children. Having heard of the fame of Sri Kunjabihari Das Babaji Maharaja, a renowned bhajananandi saint at Radha-kunda who was influential in the area of Jharikhanda during his householder life, in 1950 Sri Ananta Dasji decided to leave for a pilgrimage to meet the saint. Having arrived at Radha-kunda, he met with the mahatma and received initiation into a disciplic succe ...

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Babaji, Mahamuni

The deathless avatar who has been teaching in India for over 2000 years. More at Babaji

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Gaura-kishora dasa Babaji

the spiritual master of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.

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Gaurakisora dasa Babaji:

Gaurakisora dasa Babaji: the spiritual master of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.

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Kriya Yoga (Kriya): Ancient yogic method rediscovered, renamed, expounded, and revived by Babaji, the guru of Lahiri Mahasaya. Lahiri Mahasaya popularized it in modern India, and Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) advanced it in the United States.

Kriya theory posits apana (eliminating current), prana (the life force), an omniscient spiritual eye, and the transmutation of oxygen atoms into life current.

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Sneha - affection. In chapter twenty-one two kinds of sneha are being described by Babaji Mahasaya. He says that sneha is related to sakhya-bhava, this does not mean in the intimate sense of relationship. That kind of sakhya-bhava comes under the category of sambandha-rupa.

Sakhya-bhava in this chapter means the ordinary type of sakhyam, which comes in the nine items of bhaktithat Prahlada Maharaja mentions in Srimad-Bhagavatam. Here sakhyam is in vaidhi-bhakti, and it means to serve Krsna with an ordinary sense of friendliness (sakhya-bhava) , and to know Krsna as a friend (sakha). Since this comes under the jurisdiction of vaidhi-bhakti, it is not part of raganuga-bhakti. The other kind of sneha comes in the category of prema (sneha, mana, pranaya, etc.) , and therefore cannot be performed in raganuga-sadhana, but it can come in ragatmika-bhakti. It cannot be followed. It can only develop in prema after vastu-siddhi, when the bhakta has taken birth in the womb of a vraja-gopi, and so it cannot be practiced in raganugasadhana- bhakti.

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